first team (MF, blue T-shirt) arrived at the roadblock. Location: SAUNG ANGKLUNG UDJO. hehehe... i knew they would come there the roadblock must be similar with leg in Scotland last season. playing an Angklung (traditional music instrument from bamboo)

"Calling all units in Bandung... I repeat calling all units in Bandung, TAR has just confirmed to be there with Phil's sighting at the hotel, anyone with spare-time and available to check please call me, thanks.."

not long after that, in 20 minutes I have gathered 5 people (including one that came far away from Sukabumi (5hours) from Bandung))

we decided to break up into several teams :

- ZouLy : taking over the main communication control station

- mellodoo and zegha : going to train station and some possible historical and touristic places that night..

- doodledee : going to hussein (BDO) airport and later join with others at train station

9.00 PMSecond to last train from Gambir (Jakarta) arrived with no sighting of teams... still hoping for the last train...

11.00 PMLast train arrived, and still no sights of teams, doodledee joined with others and report that there's also no sights at the airport...

Thursday, 27 June 2013

12.30 AMChecking the Live thread and there's those posts from Singapore, I quickly checked the arrival schedule at BDO and telling all team members to stand-by at the airport in the morning...

7.55 AMAll units are ready in their position, afraid that teams will not completely take the flight, zegha is guarding the train station arrival gate and mellodoo is at the airport..

--> Airport scene at 7.55 AM

8.01 AMMellodoo reporting to communication control station that he saw several people mingling around with cameras, and when he saw that some of them are Caucasian, he is certain that these are the production crew,

I immediately pull-off the other units and tell them to go to the airport to help melloodoo and discuss a strategy so that we can catch up with them for the whole day..

--> Airport scene at 8.01 AM

9.25 AMMI 192 from Singapore landed, but there's no sights of teams...

Mellodoo taking an initiative to find the taxis that he believed already prepared by the production, and indeed all the taxis have been labelled, and he try to have a chat with one of the drivers and got our first location...

--> Taxis labelled by the Production

--> having a chat with one of the drivers...

9.40 AMQZ 8366 from Singapore supposedly landed, but was announced late by 30minutes, at this time MI 192 already took off back to SIN

10.10 AMQZ 8366 landed, and not long after that BOOM! POW! WOW!

all team members having a nerve-wracking heart-pumping spirit.. OH MY GOSHHH!!!! THEY'RE HHEREEE...!!!some of them even express their excitement with hysterical faces and still can't believe what they seen in front of them..."Please wake me up...please wake me up... am I dreaming??!?" mellodoo said to me..

Zegha and friends arrived at the location...it's not fair that motorbike cannot enter the tollway, only cars, so they arrived there with nothing to observe except the leftovers of the scene... but on his way back to the city, Zegha saw Ashley and Ally with two other taxis behind them... They just finished the task...

Now, onto the task, it was spec'd that this has got something to do with local cultures, Goat-Fight or Ram-Fight whatever, either :1. Teams have to choose one marked pick-up car and bring the Goats to the arena,2. Teams only retrieved the Clues which was hanging across the rope at the other end of the arena, while they crossing the goats are fighting in the middle...

Here are some evidences from post-production scene....

--> marked pick-up cars that were used to transport the goats..

--> the arena that was used for goat-fighting or other cultural performances and clues...

--> them goats...

--> Zegha on his way back to the city saw Ashley & Ally with two other taxis behind them...

Detour: Bandung City Zoo and Dago Marketplace

This season's detour feature two choices that are not culturally relevant, it was located at the city zoo and the famous Dago intersection...

We didn't get to saw them doing the tasks, but again, we have documented the post-production of the scene...

But according to some eyewitnesses, the choice are between :

1. Taking the wheelbarrow and went inside the zoo to feed and clean elephant's cage2. Bringing some Fruits and Trees (sugarcane and/or bamboo) to the market...

From doodledee's report, there are only 2 wheelbarrows left up until all the production and crews are gone...Then we can spec that 3 teams doing the Wheelbarrow task, and the other two doing the "bring fruits & trees" task..

Here are some evidences from post-production scene :

--> Bandung City Zoo entrance, marked by race flags on the middle of the gate, in the second picture there are two wheelbarrows left at the bottom-right corner, can you see it? and the third picture is just a clearer picture of the entrance taken from another source ...

--> The Wheelbarrows that are used to do the task...

Meanwhile mellodoo, zegha and aryantsoeseno arrived at the Roadblock location....

and with us following the second team who finished their Roadblock, that means the Afghanimals are first to the Pit Stop followed by the Boston strong Team...

16.37 PMThe third team that checked-in to the mat is Tim & Marie...But.. because our units are busy trying to find another way to sneak through the gate by looking some pathway through the forest so they missed taking picture of the third team...

16.43 PMThe fourth team who arrived at the Pit Stop is the Interracial Couple, luckily our units return to the gate after disappointingly found nothing to sneak through...

16.59 PMThe last contestant arrived at the Pit Stop location, and they are Ashley and Ally...

BUT WAITTT...HEYYAA!!!!

This is the most important part..!!

We don't know for sure whether it's an Elimination or Non-Elimmination Leg yet..

But as our units observed there, there's a chance that the last team survived the leg, this is based on some scenarios :

1. The Leg is clearly a NEL2. Tim & Marie and the Interracial Couple arrived at the Pit Stop NOT BY A TAXI, this could possibly resulted in a penalty for both teams..3. Usually having 2 Legs in the same country and final 5 could be a NEL or TBC

Okay folks... pheww.. that's all I can sum for yesterday's leg...

After all teams checked-in, I told the units that if you wanna have some revenge for your hardwork today, go to Phil's hotel and take a picture him... and they DID..!!! they went to the hotel, met Phil, have a chit-chat and took photos...look at aryantsoeseno's avatar is so cool...

For the second leg in Indonesia, I can't really guarantee much, because our on-the-ground team has skipped their work yesterday, so no one can play the hide and seek again today ,

but be grateful and thankful to our awesomecrediblymazing team in INDONESIA!!!

We will never let you disappointed RFF..!! (unless it's out of our control.. )

Love you all from TAR Fans Indonesian Group

See you on the next season of Amazing Race where they will (again) visits INDONESIA...

Cheers!!!

« Last Edit: June 28, 2013, 05:02:14 AM by ZouLy »

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Zouly for all the outstanding coordination!! And many thanks to ALL of our ground crew in ALL of the locations for a truly AMAZING job!!

Do y'all know that within about ONE HOUR of the first tweet about Phil in Bandung that RFF had 3 airports and 2 train stations COVERED??

Indonesians are AWESOME, and we can have dozens of legs there anytime, IMO!!

BIG Thanks to everyone who gave up their plans/rescheduled their day/ran all over creation to bring us as much info as possible!!

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"Our fans are pretty good. They don't give away too much. Sometimes people love dropping spoilers, but our fans are good. They tend to do it in such a way that doesn't ruin it for fans who don't want to know."--Phil Keoghan

first team (MF, blue T-shirt) arrived at the roadblock. Location: SAUNG ANGKLUNG UDJO. hehehe... i knew they would come there the roadblock must be similar with leg in Scotland last season. playing an Angklung (traditional music instrument from bamboo)

don't forget to describe that the MALE is a black dude....coz there are 3 teams with the M/F composition.....

And sounds like you are part of the awesome ground crew, so big especial thanks for that as well!!

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"Our fans are pretty good. They don't give away too much. Sometimes people love dropping spoilers, but our fans are good. They tend to do it in such a way that doesn't ruin it for fans who don't want to know."--Phil Keoghan

emagad!yesterday was awesome!I can't wait to watch the leg whether I was captured by the camera or not...it's quite hard to maintain the stalking coz the traffic was really awful but luckily, we knew where to go and miraculously we were able to slip in and out at the traffic just to follow the team's taxi

I knew they were looking at me, like warned us not to follow...but who cares? hahahahhathat was epic yesterday...great stalk, great merchandise any info about today's leg? keep it updated ok?